1519

Cf. p. 383, above.

1520

"The poetry of Arab Muslims or" is added in the margin of C and incorporated in the text of D. It appears to refer to the earlier Umayyad poets.

1521

Cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 120.

1522

Cf. GAL, I, 80 f.; Suppl., I, 128 ff.

1523

Cf. GAL, I, 91; Suppl., I, 146 f.

1524

Cf. p. 383, above.

1525

Cf. GAL, I, 151 f.; Suppl., I, 233 ff. Cf. also above, 1:82. His rasa'il are literary essays, but Ibn Khaldun is thinking of government correspondence.

1526

Cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 213.

1527

Muhammad b. 'Abd-al-Malik. Cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 121.

1528

Al-Hamadhini. Cf. GAL, I, 93 ff.; Suppl., I, 150 f.

1529

Ibrahim b. Hilal, 313-384 [925-994]. Cf. GAL, I, 95 f.; Suppl., I, 153 f.

1530

Ibrahim b. Sahl al-Isra'ili, who died in 658 [1260]. Cf. GAL, I, 273 f.; Suppl., I, 483. Cf. also below, p. 450.

1531

Ali b. Muhammad, d. 619 [1222]. Cf. GAL, I, 261 f.; Suppl., I, 462.

1532

Cf. 2:44, above.

1533

Cf. 2:45, above.

1534

Cf. Bombaci, p. 471.

1535

Bulaq corrects to "the resulting habit."

1536

Lit., "weaves on its loom."

1537

Cf. p. 157, above.

1538

Cf. 2:346, and pp. 292 f., 342, above.

1539

Cf. p. 81 (n. 471), above.

1540

Cf. Bombaci, p. 471.

1541

Abdallah b. Yusuf. Cf. Autobiography, pp. 22 ff., 41 ff.

1542

Cf. l:xli, above.

1543

Ahmad b. Shu'ayb, d. 750 [1349]. Cf. Autobiography, p. 48. The passage of the Autobiography is quoted by Ahmad Baba, Nayl al-ibtihaj (Cairo, 1351/1932, in the margin of Ibn FarbOn, Dibaj), p. 68.

1544

Yusuf b. Muhammad, 433-513 [1041/42-1119]. Cf. Ibn al-Abbar, Takmilat as-Silah, ed. F. Codera (Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, No. 6) (Madrid, 1889), p. 740, No. 2098; Ahmad Baba, Nayl al-ibtihaj, pp. 349-51.

1545

Cf. l:xliv, above. Bulaq adds "our friend," and explains that the rulers of Spain mentioned were the Banu l-Ahmar (the Nasrids of Granada).

1546

Cf. 2:441 f., above. The reference to Qur'an orthography is added in C and D.

1547

Bulaq omits the last statement.

1548

Cf. 2:428 f., and pp. 19, 29 f., above.

1549

Cf. P. 143, above. Bulaq adds: "and part of the Kitab at-Tashil."

1550

Ibn Khaldun here uses the colloquial form ista'addit (C vocalizes ista'addaytu), for ista'dadtu.

1551

Cf. GAL, I, 37 f.; Suppl., I, 67 f.

1552

Cf. p. 383, above.

1553

Cf. GAL, I, 41; Suppl., I, 71.

1554

Cf. p. 383, above.

1555

Cf. GAL, I, 53 ff ; Suppl., I, 84.

1556

Nusayb b. Rabah. Cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 99.

1557

Cf. p. 383, above.

1558

Cf. GAL, I, 48 f.; Suppl., I, 80.

1559

Bashshir b. Burd. Cf. GAL, I, 73 f.; Suppl., I, 108 ff.

1560

For him and the other famous authors of Mu'allaqahs (see p. 410, below), cf. GAL, I, 22 ff.; Suppl, I, 44 ff. For 'Amr b. Kulthum, cf. GAL, Suppl., I, 51 f.

1561

Cf. pp. 345 f., above.

1562

Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad, as-Sabti, 697-760 [1297­1359]. Cf. Ibn al-Khattb, al-Ihatah, II, 129-33. Other authors prefer 761 [1359/601 as the date of his death, it would seem for no good reason. Cf. Ibn al-'Imad, Shadharat, VI, 192 f. Cf. also p. 408, below

1563

Bulaq actually adds "of eloquence."

1564

Bulaq: "a number of."

1565

Umar b. Muhammad, 562-645 [1166/67-1245]. Cf. E. Levi­Provencal, La Peninsule Iberique, p. 136; A. R. Nykl, Hispano-Arabic Poetry (Baltimore, 1946), pp. 324 f.

1566

Qur'an 55.3-4 (2-3).